Have an image or screenshot with lots of good, linkable real estate that you want to use in your content? I had exactly that challenge over the weekend while building a presentation to promote an upcoming event for a non-profit organization I work with.

So what did I do? I leveraged a series of invisible text boxes to overlay a bunch of links on a single object in PowerPoint. I published and sure enough, it worked exactly as I expected it would. All the links were recognized without a problem by Ariculate Presenter when I published to Flash.

Here’s how the little trick works:

Fire up PowerPoint and add a new slide to your deck.

Get your image or screenshot ready and in PowerPoint go to Insert -> Picture -> From File to bring your graphic on in.